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Published in final edited form as: J Appl Dev Psychol. 2010 Nov 1;31(6):467–474. doi: 10.1016/j.appdev.2010.09.003

Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics and Paired t-tests Comparing Mothers and Fathers

	Mothers		Fathers

	M	SD	M	SD	t
Emotion Minimization	1.82	.53	1.89	.52	0.87
Global Empathy	3.80	.46	3.66	.53	1.82^t
Trait Anger	1.88	.55	1.81	.53	0.81
Depression	1.51	.32	1.43	.31	1.92^t
Avoidant Coping	1.07	.44	1.02	.42	0.84
Infant-Oriented Beliefs	4.04	.35	3.74	.40	5.27^**
Parent-Oriented Beliefs	2.33	.41	2.51	.39	3.33^**

^t

p< .10,

^*

p< .05,

^**

p<.01, df = 86